Sonja King

Experience

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  Locum Veterinary Nurse, Park Veterinary Surgery

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2003

  Veterinary Nurse
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  Vetcall Emergency Service

  Apr 1999 - Jan 2008

  Emergency OOH Veterinary Nurse
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  Rondebosch Veterinary Hospital

  Jan 2001 - Jul 2001

  Practice Manager
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  Brookhouse Veterinary Hospital

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2008

  Emergency OOH Veterinary Nurse
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  SKANDIA LIFE

  Nov 2003 - Jan 2008

  Assisted management and the IT project leader in determining the level of risk associated with each development and helped in establishing testing in line with an agreed acceptance of risk.Assessed how the new or changed programs or components would function and any impacts this would have on existing systems.Provided assistance to the test team leaders in the identification of the required test environment infrastructure necessary for testing to take place, including considerations for operating platform, supporting applications and system interfaces.Produced detailed estimates of test preparation time and provided detailed plans for every process within the test preparation and specification phases.Developed software tools to meet specific testing needs and increase the efficiency of test implementation / execution.Acted as a co-ordinator for the resolution of any issues that arose with the performance of testing.Provided training, support and assistance to any other member of the department in technology or areas of the system where required.Assisted in the development of the overall test methodology in use at Skandia.Performed a test consultancy role across a wide range of system developments supporting test managers, project managers, development managers and business users. Show less Worked in close co-operation within a team of test analysts as well as taking on an independent role as coordinator and tester of smaller projects.Prepared detailed test documentation including estimates, test scenarios, test cases, test scripts, testgrids and sequence of events to provide full test coverage of functional and business requirements.Organized and presented prepared test material to Test management and IT project team for critical review.Identified suitable test data to meet all the requirements of the established test cases, including analysis of, and selection from, live data sources where appropriate.Carried out test environment integrity checks prior to code deployment to ensure the provided test environments are suitable for testing to commence.Provided regular reports on the progress of test preparation and test execution to the test team leader and IT project leader as required.Included Quality Assurance of test scenario coverage.Supported business testers throughout UAT.Coordinated bug fixes, retests, data conversions and implementation of application. Show less

  • Senior Test Analyst

    Aug 2006 - Jan 2008

  • Software Test Analyst

    Nov 2003 - Jul 2006
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  Zurich Insurance

  Jan 2008 - May 2009

  Systems Test Analyst

  Contract test analyst based in Reading

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  Specsavers

  Jun 2010 - Dec 2010

  QA

  Test consultancy role working at Specsavers, Whiteley on a contracting basis. Current project involves changes to their front and back end webservice infrastructure using MySQL DB, Linux OS and Selenium IDE automated tool

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  J.P. Morgan

  Jan 2011 - Apr 2011

  UAT Test Analyst
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  Nationwide Building Society

  Apr 2011 - Feb 2012

  Systems Test Analyst
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  IBM

  Feb 2012 - Feb 2015

  Test Engineer
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  Ageas UK

  Mar 2015 - Jul 2015

  Systems Test Analyst
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  Old Mutual Wealth

  Aug 2015 - May 2017

  Senior Software Test Analyst
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  IMeta Technologies Ltd.

  Apr 2018 - Jun 2018

  Software Test Analyst
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  IBM

  Jun 2019 - now

  • Technical Lead - PTC

    Apr 2022 - now

  • Software Analyst

    Jun 2019 - Mar 2022